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The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has announced wreaking destruction on several key US military targets across Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman in a five-phase retaliatory operation against American aggression, including attacks targeting Iranian coastal areas.

The IRGC issued a series of back-to-back statements Monday, detailing the operations that followed up its initial response against US aggression. The Iranian Army also confirmed that its integrated air defense network intercepted and destroyed an enemy drone in the southern port city.

According to the Army's Public Relations Office, a hostile "Lucas" drone belonging to the aggressor enemy was tracked and successfully engaged by a surface-to-air missile system operated by the Air Defense Force in Bandar Abbas. The drone was shot down under the country's integrated air defense network, the Army confirmed.

Phase One: Jordan's Prince Hassan Air Base engulfed in flames

The IRGC's first communiqué announced that late Sunday night, following a US-encouraged incident involving two violating vessels that had endangered maritime navigation in the Strait of Hormuz by switching off their transponders, the US military once again revealed its savage nature by attacking Iranian coastal bases.

In response, the IRGC said: "The honorable warriors of Islam set several large missile depots and fuel storage tanks at Jordan's Prince Hassan Air Base ablaze with missile and drone strikes."

Phase Two: US drone command center in Bahrain smashed

In the second phase, the IRGC's Aerospace Force struck the US military's drone command and control center at Bahrain's Sheikh Isa Airbase.

The statement said: "The criminal, warmongering US regime, which since its founding has spent very little time free from war and military aggression, has failed to learn any lessons from its recent defeats" at the hands of the Islamic Republic's Armed Forces.

The IRGC added that its forces also destroyed "key helicopter maintenance and repair facilities" and "the hangar housing a P-8 electronic warfare aircraft" at the same base.

Phase Three and Four: Patriot systems, strategic radars, missile base destroyed in Kuwait

In a subsequent statement, the IRGC announced the "complete destruction" of fuel storage tanks and a Patriot air defense system at the Ali al-Salem Airbase in Kuwait, as well as an FPS strategic radar system at the Ahmad al-Jaber Airbase in the country.

The IRGC's Ground Force carried out the fourth phase of retaliation, targeting a US Army surface-to-surface missile base in Kuwait.

"They set two HIMARS missile launchers and ammunition bunkers filled with missiles ablaze, completely destroying them," the statement read.

Phase Five: US infrastructure in Bahrain, radar systems in Oman destroyed

In the fifth phase, the IRGC Navy targeted the Naval Support Activity, a US base in Bahrain's Juffair district, "where towering flames are now rising," the IRGC said. The force also "struck and destroyed an FPS long-range air surveillance radar and a maritime surveillance radar in the Sultanate of Oman with powerful missile and drone attacks." . 'US military driven into desperation'

The IRGC emphasized that its retaliation "has driven the child-killing US military into desperation," pointing to American troops' targeting of an agricultural water pump in Mahshahr County in southern Iran on Sunday as evidence of their anti-popular nature.

The IRGC further warned: "The only way for the Strait of Hormuz to remain open for maritime traffic is the complete cessation of illegal US military interventions in the strait and full respect for the sovereignty of coastal nations over their territorial waters. Continued interference will lead to even greater incidents in the global oil and gas sector."

In its statements, the IRGC reemphasized Iran's sovereignty over the strategic waterway, stating: "The Strait of Hormuz is our territory, and we will not allow a rogue, child-killing army from the other side of the world to continue its illegal interference there."

The IRGC also noted that the closure of the strait in response to American aggression would be lifted only when "the intervention of the aggressive US military in the strait comes to an end and the sovereignty of countries over their own coastal waters is respected."

The United States has perpetrated numerous violations against Iranian territory since April 7, when US President Donald Trump announced a unilateral ceasefire in the latest bout of wholesale American-Israeli aggression against Iran.

The violations continued even after Washington and Tehran signed a Pakistan-mediated memorandum of understanding, whose first clause clearly mandates cessation of aggression on all fronts.

Iran's Armed Forces have staged uncompromising retaliation in the face of each instance, including those taking place in support of illegal vessel movement in the Strait of Hormuz.

The IRGC confirmed that retaliatory operations are ongoing, with additional results to be announced in subsequent communiqués.

"And victory comes only from Allah, the Almighty, the All-Wise," the IRGC statement said, citing a Qur’anic verse.

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[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 66 points 1 day ago

I don't get what the US is doing. The administration that is otherwise so obsessed with projecting strength and dominance agreed to the MoU, which was humiliating and for which they were universally mocked. Iranian sanctions were relieved. Israeli media was pissed at Trump. Trump admitted that the US oil reserves are critically low, weeks away from depletion. And now they just start bombing again? What is going on? What was the point of agreeing to the MoU in the first place? It's not like they caught Iran off-guard or gained some kind of significant advantage from their perfidy. They just took the humiliation and the "Listen up Iran I'm sorry" mockery for fun?

[-] someone@hexbear.net 32 points 1 day ago

The US is doing what all bullies do when they finally face an opponent that they can't defeat and can't walk away from. They panic.

Gotta clear out that inventory and pump more money into Boeing, LockMar, and Raytheon to prop up the failed state so that something is still profitable when the AI bubble pops next Tuesday

[-] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 45 points 1 day ago

i do think that market manipulation oil prices free money exploit is playing a not trivial role here. personal enrichment is clearly superceding all other concerns for many of the lever operators at this point. trump 2 has basically been the episode of the sopranos where they bust out the sports shop but on a state level so why not take it international?

[-] dead@hexbear.net 53 points 1 day ago

Trump signed the MoU but the Trump administration has been pretending that the document is different.

The MoU says that Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz on point #5. The US pretends that the MoU say that Iran must open the strait. Iran closed the strait because US broke point #1 of the MoU which says Israel must leave Lebanon. US tells commercial ships to go through Strait of Hormuz. IRGC strikes the ships because the strait is closed. Then the US Zionist media says that Iran violated the MoU because US says that Iran has to open the strait. This is a constructed justification for escalation.

So why was there ever a break in the war? Trump didn't want to be doing the war during July 4 celebrations. Also the US wanted a period to replenish munitions and regroup. There's a clip of JD Vance saying this on The Daily Wire. Then there's the perfidy aspect. The US wanted to use the ceasefire as a ruse to continue attacking Iran while pretending to surrender. There was also some trickery around the congressional war powers approval; Pete Hegseth tried to say that Trump didn't need congressional approval because the war was on pause.

jd vance on daily wire https://nitter.net/TheCradleMedia/status/2072273224239350058#m

On Wednesday, Axios + Barak Ravid reported that a US had said that the US is preparing to attack Iran for multiple weeks. This was after the US had attacked Iran for the second time in the past week. Barak Ravid is a reporter for Axios and served in unit 8200 of the IOF at the age 18; Unit 8200 is Israel's equivalent of the US NSA. He speaks directly the White House and reports what they say. So Barak is currently or formerly a spy for Israel and reports whatever the White House tells him to say.

A U.S. official said the current escalation could last a day or two, a week or a month, depending on whether Iran continues attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz

https://nitter.net/BarakRavid/status/2075215197225013406#m

more info https://hexbear.net/comment/7294521

Then on Sunday morning, Jeremy Scahill of Drop Site News spoke with an Iranian official who said that CBS and Axios (Barak Ravid) were doing a disinformation campaign for the Trump administration. The Iranian official said that these media agencies were spreading a lie that Iran's government wanted to open the Strait of Hormuz but that rogue factions in Iran were conducting attacks in the strait. The US is spreading false information to justify US military intervention to take control of the strait.

⚡️A senior Iranian official told me that the White House engaged in a deliberate media disinformation campaign, including through Axios and CBS, claiming Iran blamed a recent attack on a vessel in Hormuz on a rogue sect within the Iranian military and that Tehran was considering an announcement with Oman about opening new transit routes in the Strait.

“This wasn’t random—it was a very deliberate and coordinated media campaign designed to pressure us into changing our decision,” the official said. “We had already clearly told the Qataris and Omanis about our firm and final decision: Iran will not allow anyone to disrupt our security and oversight management of the Strait of Hormuz.”

🔺The Iranian official said the U.S. is putting major pressure on Oman and added that the idea of opening an alternative lane in Hormuz outside of Iranian management “actually came from the American side.”

“We clearly and firmly shared our final position with” the Omanis and mediators, the official said. “The movements we’ve seen in Hormuz over the last few hours are the practical implementation of that exact decision we announced.”

https://nitter.net/DropSiteNews/status/2076237520543560132#m

Trump believes that the US and Israel will defeat Iran. Trump wants to attack Iran indefinitely. Or at least he thinks he can attack Iran enough to sneak some boats through the Strait of Hormuz.

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 46 points 1 day ago

Not much of an memorandum of understanding if one of the parties is functionally illiterate on an institutional level.

you thought I was the virgin memorandum of understanding surrender signer when in reality im the chadly incapable of understanding war winner rizz

Id use the ppb Chad for this maybe but it grosses me out

[-] miz@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

ppb Chad

worst emoji on hexbear tbh

I like the intention of it and it would have been a perfect fit but it just looks ughhgh

[-] miz@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago

tank bottom is back on the menu

[-] oliveoil@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Well they managed to get doomers in the news mega to keep asking why Iran is letting the US salami slice them

[-] InappropriateEmote@hexbear.net 3 points 23 hours ago

And as usual, those newsmega "doomers" are asking perfectly valid questions, and also as usual the newsmega pollyannas can't provide good materialist answers.

[-] oliveoil@hexbear.net 5 points 23 hours ago

"Iran is not doing anything" is an assertion.

And then Iran does something.

Then it's "Iran should escalate".

And then they escalate.

It's less materialism and more being dopamine-junkies.

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

They don't want peace. They want control of the oil's profits and isntrael wants control of the land in the region for their Greater Piss plan.

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